Unusual, earthy, minty: that’s how Chris Mohaupt, owner of the Federal Bar and Grill, described the bouquet of purple shiso I’d brought into his bar. He and bartender Jeremy Johnson rubbed the thick, fuzzy leaves between their fingers, sniffed, bit off bitter nibbles in their attempts to pinpoint the complex…
“Want to provoke a fight? Just start a discussion of where to find the best pizza in town.” That was the intro to yesterday’s list of the twelve best pizzas in Denver, and the fight got off to a fast start, with readers serving up many other favorites: Proto’s. Pizza…
When butcher Kevin Klinger, one of the original tenants of the Source, Denver’s airy indoor food-beer-wine-and-restaurant emporium in RiNo, closed Meat Head last month, there was, not surprisingly, a lot of interest in the diminutive square footage that shares real estate with Comida, Acorn, Babettes Artisan Breads, the Proper Pour,…
Shoppers at the Colorado Mills Outlet Mall in Golden will soon have several new dining options to choose from: The food court is slated to open three new restaurants next month. See also: Jeff Osaka on ramen mania, his ramen pop-up and Osaka Ramen, his new restaurant…
“During the winter season, we hibernate inward,” says Daniel Asher, culinary director of Root Down and Linger. But spring? Spring, he counters, “represents turning outward, feeling the sunshine on our skin and setting the tone for seasonality that takes us through the rest of the year.” Spring, he adds, “gives…
Just in time for Earth Day, PETA has released the finalists in its PETA’s Sexiest Vegan Next Door 2014 contest, and Jeb Brovsky, a 25-year-old Lakewood resident — when he’s not playing soccer for the Montréal Impact of Major League Soccer — is one of ten male finalists. “I am…
The race to find PETA’s Sexiest Vegan Next Door 2014 is down to the wire, and Jeb Brovsky, a 25-year-old Lakewood resident — when he’s not playing soccer for the Montréal Impact of Major League Soccer — is one of ten male finalists. “Being vegan has helped me greatly on…
When I was little, my mother used to send me to the fishmonger to pick up fish heads and other piscine waste. This was during the postwar years in London, when food was on the ration and Englishwomen were struggling to make cakes out of dried egg powder and pretend…
I didn’t partake in pot this weekend, but that’s not to say that I didn’t have the munchies. Still, instead of stuffing Twinkies and chips down my gullet, I satisfied my hunger pains with a hearty sandwich of chicken salad, melted cheddar, tomatoes and arugula. Not exactly the kind of…
“I don’t know if I could have predicted how popular it would become,” acknowledges Jeff Osaka, referencing the wave of Japanese ramen mania that’s sweeping the nation. “Ramen is something I’ve been eating since I was a kid, so it’s not new to me, but it seems like the nation…
Cafe Society served up five Guess Where? contests last week, ranging from the highly addictive house-baked pretzel twists at Old Major to a plate of completely forgettable sushi rolls from Red Ginger to a Mid-East kabob feast from a suburban strip mall joint…
Whether writing about cadavers, sex or the digestive system, Mary Roach probes the annals of history and science for the funniest anecdotes and most moving characters she can dig up. She assembles these tales into biological travelogues that tour readers through those parts of their bodies that everybody shares and…
LYFE Kitchen — the acronym stands for “Love Your Food Everyday” — is a national chain that opened its first store last year in Chicago, but plans to add 250 locations across the country over the next five years. One of them will be in Park Meadows Mall, where a…
This week in Cafe Society, Gretchen Kurtz says that Sugarmill may have hit a sweet spot in the Ballpark neighborhood. For Chef and Tell, Lori Midson talked with Matt Stein, chef of Bruxie, who is getting creative — with waffles. And as Mark Antonation’s long-running A Federal Case draws to…
When will the mooing stop? Anyone who lives in Denver, around Denver, even miles from Denver, knows that the last thing this city needs is another burger barn, but that’s not stopping cattle herders from other cities from stampeding our stamping grounds with the next latest and greatest burger mania…
If you’ve ever been to this restaurant, then you’ll recognize these pretzel twists immediately — and you’ll understand, too, why two is never enough. I have no plans to partake in 4/20 this weekend, but if I did, this is where I’d go for my munchie fix, and it’s not…
The concept behind Mile High Italian Deli, a small, 800-square-foot storefront in Highland, is sandwiches, panini, salads, and, on Saturday, pizzas, the latter of which is an extension of Mile High Pizza Pie, a pizza joint that rose — and fell — downtown, after the landlord threatened to raise the…
UPDATE: We have a winner of our Trillium Easter brunch contest, in which we asked Cafe Society readers to answer this question: How many mimosas did Trillium serve during last year’s Easter brunch? Congratulations to Mlp48, who came the closest with a guess of 142; the actual number is 167…
While some restaurants are focusing on throwing a major Easter brunch bash, others are rolling out deals related to that other Sunday holiday: 4/20. Among the latter are Central Bar & Bistro, which is hosting a front-patio party on Saturday, and Bruxie, which is cooking up a special 4/20 deal…
Matt Stein specializes in gourmet waffle sandwiches at Bruxie, but he’s obsessed with cheeseburgers. “My ongoing discussion obsession with my partners about who makes the best burger was charming four years ago,” he says in this week’s Chef and Tell. “But who knew that it could go on as long…
Easter brunch is the official culinary transition into spring, and dozens and dozens and dozens of restaurants around the city are gearing up for what’s traditionally one of the busiest feasting holidays of the year. Trillium, Ryan Leinonen’s Scandinavian-biased restaurant in Ballpark, already boasts one of the loveliest brunches in…
Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. If you haven’t made your Easter plans, it’s not too late to get out of the house and bend an elbow, if not a knee. Although you won’t find a lavish brunch spread here, the proprietors want you to know that the…
